design

Every time I sit on the dunny to unburden myself, I contemplate the issue of God and gods… and by the time I am finished cleaning away the remnants, I am yet again irrefragably convinced that the whole delusion is a failure of human reasoning and a testament to our inability to fathom the extent...

The characteristic I'm trying to convey is clarity, lucidiity, ease of understanding. We're probably looking at little more than three pages of content so no clutter required. Can anyone suggest and websites worth looking at for inspiration?

What would a designed universe look like?

Almost one year ago, I began an email debate regarding Evolution and Intelligent Design with my Creationist brother. We have a great relationship so there was no threat of actual alienation over this topic. After about 100 pages worth of back and forth content, I decided to plainly state my...

I ventured to JRE, because I found out from my 'referrence' stats from my website that people were accessing http://www.geocities.com/davidjayjordan/432KeyofStarofDavid.html from HERE.... In case, it was being discussed without me being present, I figured I might as well join...as there...

Say a person, P_id, favoring the design hypothesis says X existing is an argument against evolution. Then a person, P_dev favoring Darwinian evolution writes a computer program that shows that under Darwinian evolution X can indeed happen. Can't P_id just say that the only thing P-dev has...

Check out comment # 8. http://www.uncommondescent.com/archives/1787#comments

I am currently doing a term paper on why Intelligent Design shouldn't be taught in school. I need some books that present the "theory" in a coherant way. I currently am reading through Darwin's Black Box. I hope to get one more pro-intelligent design book to use as a source. What would be a good...

I find the commonly used argument "ID is not a science since it cannot be investigated, explained, or proven scientifically", very peculiar. it doesn't make any sense. Why? Because: The very basis of ID is the active use of intelligence. The very basis of all science is the active use of...

Intelligent Design is a trojan horse attempt to get Christian creationism into the classroom, but wouldn't there be a better case for Evil Design than Intelligent Design? Intelligent seems a bit comparative: perhaps the designer is relatively dumb but very powerful. But evil: that's seems hard...

Theists adore presenting the argument from improbability to justify their belief in God. Generally, they argue, “The cosmos (insert any other complex natural phenomenon) are far too complex to have arisen by chance, thus they must have been intelligently designed. We call this designer God.” The...

Well gosh! This settles it for me. With such a compelling and logical argument, how could anyone not believe? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usrrj5jWd68 I just wonder how he can prattle on about the banana being perfectly curved and sized for easy insertion with a straight face.

An interesting article titled Whose “War” Is It, Anyway?: Exposing Chris Mooney’s Attack on Intelligent Design over at http://www.discovery.org For those that have read Mooney's book

There is going to be a debate at my university here in Norway, with a Paul A. Nelson from the Discovery Institute, and on the other side of the table professor Bernt Walther from the dep. of Molecular Biology. Here is the intro: There was also a netmeeting with Nelson in the newspaper...

Anyone read this book yet on evolution and intelligent design? http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Darwinism-Intelligent-Design/dp/1596980133

That's right kiddos, it's time once again to meet your fellow New England skeptics! SATURDAY, July 22, 2006 at noon o'clock, Steven Novella, prez of the New Engand Skeptical Society and host of a little show called The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (there's also a really super smart co-host...

<still not allowed to post urls yet, sorry for not making a clickable link> www .google. com/trends?q=evolution%2C+intelligent+design Very interesting trend. The actual number of google searches on evolution far outweighs that of intelligent design (for the most part), yet the news reports...

Forget if God designed a flagella, the bigger question is Why did she designed things badly. Did God use a sub-subcontractor? I say God is an she because God spent a lot of time designing woman and look to have designed man as an after thought or ran out of time. One of those last minute...

I have in the past debated an odd person who seems on the surface to reject all religious establishments. However, it seems this person also is obsessed with odd ideas without basis in reality. For example, he has no reason to believe in god (or more accurately, thinks there is one but that...

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=news&start=0&num=2&q=http://today.reuters.com/sponsoredby/amex/article.aspx%3Ftype%3DinnovationNews%26storyID%3D2006-01-19T155619Z_01_L19111788_RTRUKOC_0_US-RELIGION-CATHOLIC-EVOLUTION.xml&e=50179 Yeah to some at the Vatican for standing up

Need Help with Thought Experiment design to challenge "Privileged Planet" folks Just finished watching "The Privileged Planet"...which argues pretty much the opposite of what I propose in my upcoming short film "Outside In". I'm oversimplifying but the whole foundation of their idea (and the...

From the New York Times snip Talk amongst yourselves

Last week, a new game called The Movies was released. A sort of a Sim Hollywood or Movie Studio Tycoon, where you run a movie studio; hire actors, train directors, research movie technology, shoot movies, etc, win awards, etc.. But in addition to that, you're actually making movies that you can...

NPR just ran a story on "Intelligent Design and Academic Freedom". Mostly centered around Sternberg publication of an intelligent design article...http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5007508

Catholic professor testifies on behalf of school policy’s foes

I was lucky enough to hear David Attenborough speak at the Cheltenham Literature Festival recently. He enthralled and amused the audience with stories about his 50 years in TV, and finally came to his latest project, Life In The Undergrowth, which is about the insects and other creatures which...

I don't know how many of you have seen this but: Intelligent Design vs. Baseball Bat. Enjoy.

I'm planning on attending a lecture sponsored by a local church called "Accident or design- scientists presenting facts on the world's origin". I'm really curious to learn the credentials of these 'scientists', and I'm hoping that the're assuming that they're 'preaching to the choir' and allow...

Some people have asked if there was some kind of criteria for determining intelligent design. So I thaught I would post this link. It's a long read but it's full of math and philosophy! You know, the stuff you guys love. Anyway, fire away...

So, why does the Universe seem so comprehensible and completely "intelligible?"